Melampodia

The "Melampodia"(Ancient Greek:Μελαμποδία) is a now fragmentaryGreekepicpoem that was attributed toHesiodduring antiquity. Its title is derived from the name of the greatseerMelampusbut must have included myths concerning other heroic seers, for it was at least three books long.

Select editions and translations

Critical editions

• Hesiodi, Eumeli, Cinaethonis, Asii et Carminis Naupactii fragmenta,Guil. Marckscheffel (ed.), Lipsiae, sumtibus Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1840,pp. 359-65.
• Hesiodi carmina,Johann Friedrich Dübner(ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1841,pp. 59-61.
• Rzach, A. (1908),Hesiodi Carmina(2nd rev. ed.), Leipzig{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1967),Fragmenta Hesiodea,Oxford,ISBN0-19-814171-8{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1990), "Fragmenta selecta", inF. Solmsen(ed.),Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum(3rd rev. ed.), Oxford,ISBN0-19-814071-1{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).

Translations

• Most, G.W.(2006),Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia,Loeb Classical Library, vol. no. 57, Cambridge, Massachusetts,ISBN978-0-674-99622-9{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Most, G.W.,Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments,Loeb Classical Library,No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press,2007, 2018.ISBN978-0-674-99721-9.Online version at Harvard University Press.

Bibliography

• Cingano, E. (2009), "The Hesiodic Corpus", in Montanari; Rengakos; Tsagalis (eds.),Brill's Companion to Hesiod,pp. 91–130.
• Hopkinson, N. (1988),A Hellenistic Anthology,Cambridge,ISBN978-0-521-31425-1{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Löffler, I. (1963),Die Melampodie: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion des Inhalts,Meisenheim am Glan{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Montanari, F.; Rengakos, A.; Tsagalis, C. (2009),Brill's Companion to Hesiod,Leiden,ISBN978-90-04-17840-3{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• Schwartz, J. (1960),Pseudo-Hesiodeia: recherches sur la composition, la diffusion et la disparition ancienne d'oeuvres attribuées à Hésiode,Leiden{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
• West, M.L. (1965), "Reviewed work: Die Melampodie, Ingrid Löffler",The Classical Review,15(1): 110–11,doi:10.1017/S0009840X00219409,JSTOR710132,S2CID162996953.
• West, M.L. (1978),Hesiod: Works & Days,Oxford,ISBN0-19-814005-3{{citation}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).